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Guest Blog by Liza Powel O’Brien Pierre Hardy bags look eerily similar to Tila March bags to me. Both brands launched bi colored totes trimmed in leather in the summer of 2006. Is this a case of the Goliath brand appropriating the small, independent startup’s design? Or a more innocent coincidence? The materials vary and [...]

Guest Blog by Liza Powel O’Brien Once I was shown the inside of a seemingly nondescript single-story brick house in my neighborhood. Inside, I found a double-height living room in the middle of which was suspended a smoothly modern staircase, and giant picture windows that framed the park lying below. Not another house in this [...]

I had the chance to interview handbag guru Rebecca Minkoff who is one of the few designers who has mastered designing beautiful handbags in the $500-600 range and besides giving some insight into her style and what the fashionista totes around in her handbag, I found-out that come Spring 2009 clothing will be added to [...]

An entire wall covered with Longchamp’s famous colorful nylon totes This week La Maison Unique Longchamp celebrated their 60th anniversary (on Bastille Day!), with a party on the rooftop of their gorgeous Soho boutique. The event was catered by Tastings, the catering arm of Payard (which I recognized immediately since I live right by the [...]

Anyone who has ever looked at award show fashion has seen Mary Norton’s clutches. She used to design under the name Moo Roo (named for her 2 daughters Micah and Reilly), but Norton now designs under her own name and all of her bags are handcrafted in Italy and produced in limited quantity. I met [...]

The other day I had the pleasure of meeting Kara Ross and her PR coordinator Elizabeth and they gave me a firsthand look at the latest Kara Ross jewelry and handbag collections. Ross works with an array of skins and for the first time, this season, some of her pieces (and my favorites) were made [...]